Henry Ewins Email & Phone Number

Horsham, England, United Kingdom

-Working to develop, maintain, and enhance the back-office software systems - implementing new technologies and procedures appropriate to the Development and Building Control's function in liaison with internal/external partners and software suppliers.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

-Working as a 'jack of all trades and master of some' for a busy medical school academic who has many appearances in national media and a very complex schedule with multiple commitments.>Have gone above and beyond to efficiently find technical/service/software/hardware solutions for everything from PCs and laptops (fixing, replacing, setting up, diagnosing, securely wiping, responsibly disposing of, etc), phones (diagnosing, wiping, disposing of, and finding foreign travel sim solutions), tape recorders, fixing the internals of an electric scooter and rotating fan, hard drives (recovering data, reviving, wiping, disposing of), software (fixing issues, sourcing solutions, writing FAQs), website/domain maintenance (changing providers, 24/7 support when website infected - fixing SQL database, creating backups, removing viruses, futureproofing against attacks), browsers, OSs, WiFi setups, instruments, shavers (replacing and soldering in new batteries), speakers, printers (getting WiFi printing working), and apps (finding a file syncing system for reading papers that worked for him). In a situation wherein I couldn’t find a solution or compromise, I promptly connected him with expert advice.>Additionally, aided in media production through the file sourcing and editing of completed interviews for his media portfolio/YouTube channel and editing educational and promotional videos tied to his books. Supported his academic psychological studies through amending MATLAB code. Performed more general PA roles like picking up dry cleaning and hiring his other personal assistant.

Falmer, England, United Kingdom

-Working for the Digital Comms Team, tackled the fascinating technical challenge of automating processes for generating subtitles and transcripts for two years of graduation ceremonies past and present. Helped fulfil the Universities legal accessability responsibilities following audit:>Developed a web app for find and replace 'similarity threshold'-based name correction and reformatting of uploaded documents.>Researched all available AI transcription solutions for effectiveness and ease of use by naive users. Troubleshooted solutions to current shortcomings of the best libraries and models - optimising output in terms of line length, timestamps and word error rate.>Created a pool of captions for easy creation of transcripts from subtitles.-Additionally, supported the work of the Corporate Events Team with development, management, and successful delivery of some key Sussex events in different capacities, including Summer Graduation 2023, the Fundraiser Beneficiary event, the London Recent Grad event, the Commemoration Dinner, the Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong Alumni events, the London Legacy event, and Sussex's participation in Brighton Pride. Responsibilities included everything from managing the room/announcements of drink receptions, venue research, being a safety steward, and cleaning event transactions for the data team.

Falmer, England, United Kingdom

-Engaged with the University of Sussex Business School student and alumni communities in a diversified manner. Delivered presentations (welcome week), contacted international alumni by phone pursuant to our accrediations objectives, and represented the team at face-to-face and virtual events (Recent Grad - i360/London, MBA & Make It Happen Speaker Series, Graduations, Spirit of Sussex, Business, etc) to increase awareness of our work and engage students/alumni alike.>Attended web editor best practice training at Sussex and employed and contributed to: video production (e.g. the 60th anniversary reunion University tour video which was also discovered and used overseas by the University), Spotlight On interviews of alumni, social media planning, and digital comms driven by our overarching Business School alumni engagement strategy - including surveys/emails for distribution lists.>Managed the Sussex Connect Business group. Nurtured a sense of community using curated content, photos, and events whilst engaging weekly with the nearly 2000 members. >Delivered on short and long-term projects with my jobshare like the physical wall of fame by setting up a common online workspace to organise our work when we lacked a dedicated manager. Maintained/updated/contributed to reports on best practice for procedures like ordering gift cards for survey winners, maintaining social media groups, and editing the graduation yearbooks.>Played a crucial role in delivering student data and more detailed analysis to Accreditations, Careers, the Business School, and Student Experience, ad hoc and otherwise. Refined large data exports and created reports that identified key external contacts for school initiatives (e.g. QS course results and the Sussex MBA Partnership Scheme). Worked with multiple teams on common projects across the University, including the alumni team, Business comms and external engagement, corporate events team, fundraisers, etc.

Falmer, England, United Kingdom

-Notetaker, Lab Support Worker, Practical Support Worker, and Sighted Guide.>As a Disability Support Worker for postgraduate students, tailored notetaking to needs, feedback, and preferences (e.g. capturing group interactions for a hard of hearing student at the back of the room anonymously).

-Feature/news/review writing for gaming/tech online publications including VICE, TechRadar, Eurogamer, Game Developer, and Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Often interview-based and with some science, AI, or sociological angle communicated to a layman audience by leveraging video games. >The feature editor of Eurogamer, Christian Donlan, called my writing ‘in the top one percent of things we have published in terms of quality.’ Another feature was called out as exactly ‘the kind of work they want to see on Game Developer’ and featured at GDC. Multiple ‘best of list’ placements.>As a freelancer, wrote multiple news posts in CMS with pace and wider industry context before close of play and complex, interview-based feature articles whilst balancing up to ten interviewees at once (e.g. ‘Rewriting the horrors of mental health representation in games’ for Game Developer). Conducting email-based/live interviews, spoke to dozens of virtual pandemic event organisers, developers, experts, modders, AI tool developers, content creators, etc around the world, including the former CTO of Kickstarter, Andy Baio, director of Control, Mikael Kasurinen, and Jacob Benton, lead designer of Destiny 2.

-Administration, promotion and hosting/running of events including the University of Sussex Student Union comedy night. Remunerated for gigs in Brighton and London.>As an event promoter, managed hosting/performing alongside tasks such as stewarding performers, covering performer travel and costs, overseeing the venues, capturing photos of each performer, timing each performance, and coordinating a team of volunteers to manage queues and advertise via peak flyering spots and social media channels.

Falmer, England, United Kingdom

-In the Sussex Penn Lab:>Ambitiously inherited a master’s project (as an undergraduate) aiming to optimise glutamate neurotransmission fluorescent probe visualisation to work with a classical transfection protocol (saving on the use of viral vectors). Learnt cell culture transfection, rat brain dissection, and the use of viral vectors.>Supported a PHD candidate and Researcher with research on AMPA and NMDA receptor mutations and cognitive impairment using molecular and genetic methodologies. >Contributed to the coding, running, and analysis of GPU-accelerated molecular dynamic simulations of NMDA receptor structures in different states. Evaluated mutational sensitivity by clustering for most most representative structures, doing principal component analysis on static and dynamic features, looking at synaptic charge transfer, and experimenting with saturation mutagenesis.>Provided fun demonstrations for secondary students on research open day.

-Caring for residents at multiple dementia care homes (cleaning, feeding, entertaining), updating patient records, preparing home-wide meals independently and responding to emergencies and incidents effectively.>Negotiated, perforce, sometimes difficult and unhappy situations with carers, families and residents - diffusing situations through a calm demeanour and coming to the best, most professional solution I could for all involved.>Navigated day to day new dementia care homes whilst still working effectively with long-established teams and new residents. Tackled tasks that demanded a very strong team dynamic with strangers, from operating machines together to coordinating notes on residents.

Artificial Intelligence And Adaptive Systems Msc, Artificial Intelligence

Medical Neuroscience Bsc, Neuroscience, 2.1

Activities and Societies: UniTV, University Radio Falmer (and running URFunny comedy night), Comedy, HackSussex, Wordsmiths, Circus, Folk.

Biology, Chemistry, Physics, And Maths

Activities and Societies: Peer educator, reading buddy, charity organiser, Amnesty International representative, certified (St John.